According to Grant Erickson: > The problem I am having, which may be due to inappropriate hacking of > sysvinit, is that sometimes processes of which 'init' is a parent do not > inherit the environment variables exported:
They probably do inherit the environment, but simply reset the environment internally ignoring whatever was set by the parent. > Has anyone else modified sysvinit in this way? Any success? Did I miss > something key in my patch? I think you need t ostudy the source code of those misbehaving programs. BTW, you could have achieved the same by using /etc/initscript. Could be a shell script, but could be a small compiled executable too that sets TZ. Mike. -- I live the way I type; fast, with a lot of mistakes. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
